Well I see the "deep" ball lumped into the 20+ category often with this stat. Perhaps this is just me, but I don't think of a 20 yard pass as a deep ball. The guys in my Thanksgiving Day tackle football game can flick a wrist and toss the ball 20 yards.

If you watched the kid's pro day you could just see the amazing touch he had when going deep. Very accurate, especially outside the hashmarks. I'm not surprised that he's been accurate on his deep passes. What has surprised me is how often he's been able to get the ball downfield considering we lack a legitimate deep threat on the roster.

And now you’re asking: Does it matter if your quarterback can’t throw long with any success? Of Keating’s top 10 deep passers, eight preside over teams with winning records. Of the 10 lowest-ranked deep passers, only one plays for a winning team — Matt Ryan. This would seem to indicate that the Falcons are doing it the hard way.

Finally, we take a look at the quarterbacks with the highest Accuracy Percentage on deep throws. While Accuracy Percentage weeds out some throws (like spikes and balls batted at the line), in this case, the only factor that makes it different than completion percentage is drops.

For the third time in a row, Brees tops the list, assuring his spot as the top deep passer in the past three seasons. Two of the three men competing for the Miami Dolphins’ starting job are in the Top 10, offering hope for Chad Ochocinco finding himself back on the highlight reels. While Andy Dalton has the second-highest completion percentage for quarterbacks on deep passes, the fact that he has yet to have a ball dropped on his long throws hurts his accuracy percentage relative to the rest of the quarterbacks.

On the other end of the spectrum, if you need one set of statistics to point to in a “JaMarcus Russell is a bust” conversation, this is it: of the 34 deep passes Russell threw in 2009, just one was completed … and seven were intercepted. Fellow 2007 draft class bust Brady Quinn wasn’t much better, with just five completions on his 34 deep passes in 2009. Those numbers contributed to keeping either from attempting a pass since that season.

he looks like more of a scrambler/gunslinger in this video than he has this season with Miami.I'm hoping these highlights end up becoming the norm after this season. He should be a dangerous quarterback in the future.